Examining how the brain processes music: New findings (subscription required) recently published in NeuroImage offer additional insights into how music affects our neural circuits. The researchers found that music listening recruits not only the auditory areas of the brain, but also employs large-scale neural networks.

Occupy the Future awareness event to take place at Stanford tomorrow: A series of teach-in style sessions inspired by the Occupy protests were held on the Stanford campus Friday in an effort to increase awareness about social inequality, the erosion of American democracy and the link between unrestrained growth and the current environmental crisis. Three of the sessions focused on inequalities in health-care.